Last month, I talked to three different professionals who were all "actively job hunting." One had sent 200+ applications. Another was updating his resume for the third time. The third was convinced networking events were the answer. Three months later? All three were still searching, increasingly frustrated, blaming themselves for not being "good enough." But here's what none of them saw: thei...

Read time: 5 minutes | Forward to a friend I recently worked at a company that had three rounds of layoffs during my 12 months there. I was caught in round three, but then there was yet another round shortly after I left. Four cuts in roughly a year. And you know what surprised me most? How many people were caught off guard the second time. And the third. How did we become so conditioned to tr...

Read time: 4 minutes | Forward to a friend March 2020. First week of pandemic lockdown. The job market died overnight, and I needed work. I started reaching out to old contacts I hadn't spoken to in months, some even years. Sending awkward "hey, remember me?" messages while secretly cringing at myself. Within 48 hours, three people responded with opportunities. One turned into a project that c...